Warlock Apprentice

“That’s a space-storage item, is it not?” asked Greya.

“It’s called Snowy Feather,” Angor said as he nodded. “It’s for keeping Toby’s clothes and snacks.”

Both Greya and Felicia remained silent for a while once they realized Angor’s generosity. As his owner, Greya did love Toby but not to such an extent as to give the bird a valuable space storage.

Now, not only did Angor do so, but he also went over the trouble by shaping the item into a feather which blended with Toby’s own feathers perfectly.

“Such… luxurious gift.” Felicia failed to hold back her comment. Even wizards would find such items to be costly. How could a bird have its own, customized space storage?

Actually, Angor didn’t find Toby’s gift to be much of an issue. In fact, Toby’s snacks helped him a lot when they wandered in the plane passageway.

Using the chance, Greya asked Angor about Toby’s life in the past year.

The change of personality seemed pretty smooth too. Angor knew this body now possessed two souls. However, he wasn’t sure if this was caused by a split in the soul, or that Greya robbed someone else’s body.

Angor didn’t wish to stay with Felicia and bear with the awkwardness, so he decided to leave.

Before he could walk away though, Felicia suddenly said, “The other day…”

Angor’s body became stiff. He was really worried that Felicia might mention the unpleasant dinner.

Felicia grinned at Angor’s reaction. “How did you escape your alchemy omen the other day?”

Angor relaxed at the unexpected question. However, he quickly grew tense again since this one was also about his soul.

He REALLY wanted to keep his secret, but he couldn’t keep secrets in the face of a powerful wizard.

“Well, my soul has something speci—”

Felicia waved a hand and stopped his words. “Okay, fine! I’ll not look into your small mysteries anymore. Now go.”

Angor tilted his head and wondered what just made Felicia change her mind.

Still, he felt greatly relieved.

Felicia silently sighed when Angor left for his bedroom on the second floor.

In order for her to get away from “that thing”, Isabelle warned her not to question or meddle with Angor’s soul.

This was why Felicia silenced Angor the moment she heard him mentioning the word “soul”. She was scared. That suture woman who almost broke her sanity would haunt her mind like a nightmare every time she recalled the terrible experience.

…

Time flew by.

The next morning, when Angor was meditating on his bed, he suddenly heard someone speaking gently beside his ear:

“Now, come to Spirit Realm. It is time to fulfill my promise.”

The voice came and went away quickly. Angor was dazed for a while before he realized that Isabelle just spoke to him.

And he dared not tarry when a legendary wizard who dominated an entire era summoned him. He quickly got washed and changed. He then asked a mute servant to take him to B2.

The servant remained outside the gate of Spirit Realm and told Angor to go inside.

Walking past the gate, he immediately felt an ominous wind blowing against his face. Everything was too dark in here for him to see clearly.

He felt even stranger when he realized that he could no longer use his spirit feelers.

He walked for some more and began to doubt Isabelle’s intention. What happened to the “promise”? Why did he have to enter this darkness?

Next, he noticed that he was now walking in a strange space. There were no longer walls or ceilings around him.

Also, he felt extremely tired, as if a powerful being nearby was trying to put him to sleep.

Every time he did feel like sleeping, his body would fall toward an unknown direction.

It made him scared. Something told him that letting his body fall freely would only bring him to doom.

With this in mind, he forced his spirit to stay awake and kept on walking. This way, he could slowly drag his body away from the unseen abyss.

He gradually lost track of time until he heard a familiar voice.